What is Ethereum Mining

The mining process for Ethereum is the same as that of Bitcoin. For every transaction block, the miners make use of computers to quickly and repeatedly solve computational equations till any one of them makes it through. To be more precise, the miners ought to run the exclusive header metadata of the block (which include the timestamp as well as the software version) via a hash function that returns a jumbled, fixed-length string of letters and numbers which looks haphazard, and simply alters the 'nonce value', that controls the resultant hashing value.

In case the miner comes across a hash that equals the existing target, then the miner will be granted with Ether cash and will get a chance to authenticate as well as add a new block on the Ethereum platform. There’s no way the miners can revise the mining process as it is fixed. Since the miners leave an extensive proof of their puzzle-solving process on the network, the Ethereum mining process is also known as 'proof-of-work'. A miner locates a block every 12–15 seconds. If a miner starts solving the equations faster or slower than the set time, the Ethereum algorithm by default readjusts the difficulty level of the equations so that the miners roughly go back to the 12-second timeline for each solution.